 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. Since the barriers of the monarchy, and even of the capital, had been trampled under foot,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 696
...argument — " a musical and prolific language," as it is expressed by the historian, " that gives u soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." The history of the origin and progress of this language, like that of other ancient tongues,... | |
 | 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 558
...signal success. This musical and prolific language does not only, to use the words of Gibbon, " give a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the "abstractions of philosophy," but is, as the same author justly observes, " the golden key that unlocks the treasures... | |
 | 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...language, as the historian enthusiastically expresses it, so musical and prolific, that it could give a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of metaphysics ? — Those lofty but dangerous speculations, therefore, in which the strongest minds sometimes become... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...language, as the historian enthusiastically expresses it, so musical and prolific, that it could give a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of metaphysics ?- — Those lofty but dangerous speculations, therefore, in which the strongest minds sometimes become... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 706
...argument — " a musical and prolific language," as it is expressed by the historian, " that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." The history of the origin and progress of this language, like that of other ancient tongues,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 542
...golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. Since the barriers of the monarchy, and even of the capital, had been trampled under foot,... | |
 | 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...reader, the effect is far from inconsiderable. It has been said of the Greek language, that it gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. Grecian genius has performed the harder task, of giving substance and reality, to the airy... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...glories of the idiom of old Hellas — " of that rich and harmonious language, whose sounds could give a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy." Nor was the ancient Greek neglected; besides Vamba, who is esteemed a good Hellenist,... | |
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In their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity ; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body... 
